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In Reply to: Some thoughts on Linn's woes and other matters... (longish) posted by DevillEars on April 28, 2007 at 06:41:32:
Recently, Linn has invested heavily in building state of the art digital player transports (ie. Silver Disk Engine).However, just like it's almost impossible for a startup/small conmpany to build a car from first principles, it will become impossible for anyone but large consumer electronics firms to innovate when it comes to electronic components.
Most high end DVD players these days (Linn and TEAC would be exceptions) are basically OEMed off a mass produced platform. It's difficult for a small company to navigate through the licenses involved for DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Dolby, DTS, etc. let alone invest sufficient resources to design and build their own transports, MPEG decoder, etc.
The future will become worse, thanks to DRM. The requirements for content protection and the limiting of HD content transmission to HDMI will mean it's impossible for a small company to design or even manufacture a BluRay/HD-DVD player or AV receiver/processor unless they OEM off an existing design (or go down the PC route).
I would hate to be in Linn's shoes at the moment. The only way they can ever release a BluRay/HD-DVD player is if they abandon every principle on which their company was founded on.
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Follow Ups
- Thanks for an insightful and thought provoking post - Christine Tham 15:51:36 04/28/07 (5)
- "abandon every principle on which their company was founded on"? ... - andyr 22:28:06 04/28/07 (4)
- The principle of being a manufacturer vs rebranding (nt) - Christine Tham 21:56:25 05/01/07 (1)
- Aah, thanks, Christine. :-)) - andyr 01:00:26 05/02/07 (0)
- Re: "abandon every principle on which their company was founded on"? ... - middleground 05:28:23 04/29/07 (1)
- Not 100% certain but I believe it was the Ariston. - andyr 13:37:04 04/29/07 (0)
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